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Which animal populations still don't mix because of the former Iron Curtain?

Although the "iron curtain" on the border between Czechoslovakia and the FRG, which was a live fence with barbed wire, has long disappeared, the deer living here, with rare exceptions, do not cross the border. This conclusion was made after many years of observation of animals that were wearing collars with GPS navigators. Reindeer follow their mother from birth and develop migration routes, so Czech and German deer still have different habitats, although at present nothing separates them and all living animals were born after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

Authors: Jimmy Wales, Larry Sanger

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What was the last country that Scotland invaded?

Panama.

One of the last projects of Scotland before the "Act of Union" of 1707, which annexed it to England and Wales and formed Great Britain, was an ambitious attempt to create its own colony in Darien, as Panama was formerly called.

This whole crazy idea was invented by one person - William Paterson, founder of the Bank of England. Paterson saw in the project the possibility of creating a Scottish trading outpost in Central America, which would serve as a link between the wealth of the Pacific Ocean and the trading countries of Western Europe.

The British pretty quickly deleted themselves from the list of partners. At that time, they were just at war with France and did not want to take risks so as not to arouse the wrath of the Spaniards (who also had views of Panama). Hearing of Paterson's intention, the British government forbade its subjects to invest in the project. Then Paterson decides to look for the necessary funds north of the border. The enthusiasm of the Scots exceeded all his expectations: in six months, Paterson managed to raise 400 thousand pounds sterling - a huge amount for those times, equal to a third of the total aggregate capital of the entire nation. Almost every Scot who could afford it invested £5.

In 1698, the first batch of five ships set sail in the port of Leith and arrived at their destination in November of that year. Regrettably, the expedition turned out to be completely unprepared and ill-informed. The land that the Scots intended to turn into New Caledonia turned out to be an unsuitable swamp for agriculture, where mosquitoes swarmed. The Indians absolutely did not need stocks of wigs, mirrors and combs, with which the colonists hoped to trade with them. The English colonies located in the same areas were strictly forbidden to enter into trade relations with newcomers, and the Spaniards met the Scots as irreconcilable enemies.

Within six months, 200 of the 1200 settlers died from malaria and other tropical diseases, and the death rate reached ten people a day. In addition to the fact that the unfortunate had to bend their backs day and night to drain the swamp, all the provisions brought from their homeland quickly fell into disrepair, and by the beginning of summer there were no more than a pound of weekly supplies of gray flour eaten by larvae for each settler. Rumors of an impending Spanish attack were the last straw. Only 300 settlers managed to return to Scotland.

The Darien adventure ended in complete failure for Scotland, becoming a real national disaster. She not only undermined the morale of the Scots, but also left the country's economy in a huge debt - 250 thousand pounds. Seven years later, the country was forced to sign the "Act of Union with England." The Scots unanimously believed that the English had deliberately withheld their help in order to insult and humiliate Scotland and make union inevitable. The popularity of the Jacobite resistance in the next forty years can be safely linked to the horrors of the Panamanian expedition and the dashed hopes of the Scots.

As for Darien itself, it still remains a very inhospitable place, completely covered with dense jungle. Even the Pan-American Highway, meant to eventually connect Alaska and Argentina, breaks off at the Darien Gap.

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